{"id":1624,"date":"2008-09-14T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T01:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2008-09-14T18:51:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T01:51:27","slug":"newsletter-459-preview-the-iphone-21-update-did-apple-finally-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2008\/09\/newsletter-459-preview-the-iphone-21-update-did-apple-finally-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #459 Preview: The iPhone 2.1 Update: Did Apple Finally Get it Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have to play the clich\u00e9 game again. You see, three times may indeed have been the charm for Apple&#8217;s efforts to repair the most irritating bugs in the current generation of iPhone software.<\/p>\n<p>The misery for Apple began on that fateful day when they tried to achieve three holes in one, simultaneously introducing the iPhone 3G, the new 2.0 software, and reinventing .Mac as MobileMe.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, I would call it one home run and two outs. Yes, there were some activation issues early on for the first few hours the highly-anticipated iPhone 3G went on sale. Perhaps that was a combination of the overload experienced by both Apple&#8217;s and AT&#038;T&#8217;s servers in the states, and similar issues around the world where the hot-selling gadget first went on sale.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, lots of iPhone users complained, and quite loudly. 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